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Quotes About Life

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
~ John Calvin
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.
~ Carl Safina
Sometimes up sometimes down, Treat well life whatever comes around
~ Manish Upadhyay
We spent all your life for things and not dedicate the things that await us.
~ Davi Oliveira
Problems are part of life and within the obstacles it creates are brilliant miracles for the enduring folks.
~ Darmie O-Lujon
A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead
~ Messaoud Mohammed
All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.
~ Amy Layne Litzelman
Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.
~ Tista Ray
Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
~ Seneca the Younger
Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never
~ Cardinal Richelieu
He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.
~ Brian Spellman
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
~ John Chrysostom
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
~ Dorothy Day
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
~ Michael Cunningham, The Hours
It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.
~ Mirra Alfassa
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
~ The Buddha
Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.
~ Haim Ginott
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
~ Prem Rawat
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
~ Sargent Shriver